Organizing, financing and operating public transport service networks can be quite a challenge. The liberalization of the public transport sector within EU has introduced some additional challenges since the public transport systems nowadays more often consist of services operated by multiple organizations. When passengers move between public transport service networks that are operatedby different organizations, the need for effective coordination become evident. The importance of effective coordination and the associated challenge to achieve this – independent of organizational structure - is the point of origin for the TRANS-FORM project. The project focuses on the development of an integrated passenger-focused management approach that takes advantage of multiple datasources and state-of-the-art scheduling support.This document reports on the work performed in task 3.1 entitled “Real-time traffic management optimization” and task 3.2 entitled “Smart real-time strategies” of the TRANS-FORM project. These tasks were performed as part of work package 3 “Methods for Planning and Operating RobustServices”.The work in the mentioned tasks focus on how to model an integrated passenger-focused management approach including developing strategies that enable improved coordination and smooth passenger transfers. This document contains a specification of the configuration of each modelled level (hub,urban and regional) and the proposed types of management strategies as well as the requiredinformation flow. A specification of the proposed integration of those three levels and their interactionis also presented.

Additional project documentation can be found on the project website: 

http://www.transform-project.org/index.php/progress-and-results/.